London mayor election 2021 results: Who won?
Updated: 9 May 2021, 18:12
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THE London mayoral election had the city on a knife-edge awaiting the results after flocking to polling stations on Thursday, May 6.
And with twenty candidates battling it out to get control of carving up the capital’s eye-watering £19billion budget, this year s race proved a nail-biting finish.
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Who won the London Mayor elections 2021?
He earned 55.2% of the popular vote - despite early results indicating that his support has been lower than anticipated.
Khan beat his Conservative rival Shaun Bailey, 49, after the pair entered a run-off when neither managed to secure a majority in the first round of voting.
When will the London mayoral election results be announced?
Updated: 5 May 2021, 17:53
ONE barmy London Mayoral hopeful wants to “sort out the pigeons” while another has donned “children s glasses” to prove he’s a “man of action”.
Twenty candidates want your vote to carve up the capital’s eye-watering £19billion budget. Here’s when we’ll know who has been chosen to lead London.
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When will the London mayoral election results be announced?
Sadiq Khan, 50, is running for a second term to rule London in the Thursday, May 6 mayoral elections.
The Labour rep has been leading the field in polling over his nearest rivals, Tory candidate Shaun Bailey, 49, Greens co-leader Sian Berry, 45, and Luisa Porritt, 33, leader of the Camden Lib Dems.
22 April, 2021
• THE other day I received a booklet with the inviting title
“6 May 2021: Have your say” from Mary Harpley, Greater London Returning Officer.
It reminded me of the dubiety of our current democracy. A good democracy minimally requires a well-informed electorate.
Certain politicians conspire against that requirement, preferring to misinform: witness prime minister Boris Johnson’s “We have placed a protective ring around care homes”; “There will be no border down the Irish Sea”; “As London’s mayor, I left Transport for London’s finances in robust good order”.
The booklet offers another way in which democracy is ill-served.
How many people, many working long hours and or with children to look after, have time and motivation to read the booklet’s 36 pages?